Student Engagement through Emotional and Social Intelligence – An Apporach

Abstract

Grabbing and retaining students' engagement has become the latest focus of attention for those aiming to maintain and enhance learning and teaching in higher education. Engagement is more than involvement or participation. Being involved in higher education, we face many problems in class, especially concerning student 'engagement'. We, the teachers, struggle to increase students' participation in the class. Students hardly pay attention, are least interested in the discussion process, and are busy using their mobile phones in class. Also, most of the students are willing to be the backbenchers. They just show their physical presence, and the only reason is that 75% of attendance is made compulsory to be eligible to appear for the university exams. Rather, they are interested in the activities in the class. This paper focuses on how the engagement of the students can be improved. The paper will cover two aspects: Emotional intelligence and Social intelligence. Apart from that, suggestions are taken from the students about how to improve their engagement while in the class to better clarify the topic. Therefore, the paper's analysis will be based on personal views and the valuable feedback given by the students. I have collected the feedback of 50 students in the BBA 2nd semester through structured and close-ended questionnaires.